What Else Do You Speak?

Recently there was a map making the rounds of the Internet showing the most popular second and third languages in each state in the U.S.  Spanish is usually second, but a variety of languages are the third most popular language in a state.  Who would have though German is so popular in so much of the country?

Of course, I wanted to do a Canadian version.  Here are the most popular mother-tongues in each province, other than English and French, based on census data from 2011:

• The asterisk indicates languages that also beat one of the official languages.
• Inuktitut is first overall in Nunavut.
• Yes, I know "Chinese" is a family of languages, but not everyone specifies which variation on the census
• Cree is barely behind German in Saskatchewan, and they both beat French.

Across all of Canada, Chinese is third.  The numbers are: English, 18,858,975; French, 7,054,970; Chinese 1,072,555.  After that, Punjabi, Spanish, German and Italian all have numbers in the low 400,000s.